Well the BCS bowl season is over and LSU pretty handily beat OSU in the "BCS Championship" game played in the Sugar bowl on Monday 38 to 24. In the final AP poll, LSU was 1st with 60 first place votes with Georgia, USC, Missouri, OSU, WVU, and Kansas rounding out the top 7 spots, so there will be no "split" championship this year.
However, what we ended up with was 6 teams with 2 losses, and a one loss team in the top 7 spots and only two of those teams had played another team in the group. So how can anyone rightfully say that LSU is the "real" #1?
According to some reports the BCS will evaluate a plus one format when they meet in April ( ESPN report ). But either of the currently discussed methods of plus one plans would have left out USC and Georga from the proposed seeded 4 team playoffs.
The biggest sticking point in all of this is as usual the Rose Bowl folks. Unless somehow they are convinced to move to support some type of playoff format, any plan is probably still born. The Rose bowl folks are determined to keep what they consider the preeminent position and ties with the Pac-10 and Big 10 conferences, and anything that they view as undermining that position will just not fly. What they fail to realize is that to the majority of college football fans, the Rose Bowl isn't the "Grandaddy" of the bowls anymore, and hasn't been for some time.
Opponents to a "real" playoff system in Div-I typically use the "too many games" argument to argue against additional games in the season. I prefer to look at "too long between games" for teams like OSU who last played on NOVEMBER 17th, as a perfect reason to go to a playoff format. Teams sitting around for nearly 2 months between their final regular season game and a "championship" game is simply foolish. The rhythm, the routine, the normalcy that regular game playing gives a team is totally lost with that kind of a break in routine.
Congratulations to LSU, but I'm pretty sure fans and players from Kansas, USC, and Georga have a just as equal and legitimate reason to say "We're #1".
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
So is LSU really #1?
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I bet the winner of a georgia v USC game would probably beat LSU and earn the championship rightfully.
OSU played a weak schedule and was beaten by a weak illinois team that got whooped in their bowl game.
too long between games in a big issue
LSU looked sharp. I would love to have seen Georgia and USC play with the winner facing off against LSU (since Georgia didn't play them this year).
I think the long layoff between final regular season games and the big bowls is the biggest reason we see so many blowouts in the bowls.
Let's get a playoff already and solve the problem :)
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